For more than 34 years Earl Drott Law has represented individuals and families in Tyler, Longview and the surrounding East Texas area in connection with serious personal injury and wrongful death cases.
A veteran of many successful trials he has personally handled thousands of individual cases for his clients.
Earl Drott is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law and has been selected to the Texas Super Lawyers, The National Top 100 Trial Lawyers, the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and the exclusive American Board of Trial Advocates. He is widely known as a zealous advocate and a lawyer who simply won't back down from an insurance company. His unbending approach to the practice of law has resulted in the recovery of many millions of dollars for his clients.
The firm specializes in motorcycle, auto and trucking accident cases but also has extensive experience handling industrial accidents involving construction, the oilfield, and warehouses as well as personal liability cases involving sexual abuse, spousal abuse, dog attacks, and premises liability.
- Personal Injury
- Insurance Claims
- Products Liability
- Auto Accidents
- Trucking Accidents
- Oilfield Accidents
- Industrial Accidents
- Motorcycle Accidents
- Free Consultation
- Contingent Fees
- Texas
- 5th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
- English: Spoken, Written
- The University of Texas School of Law
- J.D.
- Honors: National Mock Trial Team
- Activities: Texas Law Review
- Oral Roberts University
- B.S. (1980) | Business Administration
- Honors: Business Administration cum laude
- Super Lawyer
- Texas Super Lawyers
- 2011, 2012
- Selected
- American Board of Trial Advocates
- Life Member
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Life Member
- Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Texas State Bar # 06134750
- Member
- Current
- College of the State Bar of Texas
- Past Member
- Current
- National Board of Trial Advocacy
- Past Member
- Current
- East Texas Woods and Waters Foundation
- Founding Director
- Current
- Texas Trial Lawyers Association
- Director
- Current
- East Texas Trial Lawyers Association
- Member
- Current
- American Association for Justice
- Member
- Current
- Smith County Bar Association
- Member
- Current
- Smith County Bar Foundation
- Charter Fellow
- Current
- Compensating the Sexual Molestation Victim Under the Texas Homeowner's Policy
- Texas Trial Lawyers Forum
- Compensating the Sexually Abused Child: Homeowner's Policy Can Provide Funds for Treatment
- American Trial Lawyers Association Trial
- Minimizing the Effect of a Medical Malpractice Claim
- East Texas Medicine
- The Doctrine of Parental Immunity in Sexual Abuse Cases: The Last Throes of a Texas Dinosaur
- Texas Trial Lawyers Forum
- Personal Injury Trial Law
- Texas State Bar
- Website
- Earl Drott's Website Profile
- Website
- Earl Drott P.C. Website
- Blog
- Texas Injury Lawyer Blog
- Texas Appeals Court Holds that Summary Judgment Was Improper in Drag Strip Participant’s Negligence Law Suit
14 February 2020 - Verdict in Favor of Family Injured in East Texas Car Accident Reversed on Appeal
16 January 2020 - $500,000 Verdict Against TxDOT Affirmed Following Multiple Fatality Crash on Highway in East Texas
16 December 2019 - Texas Appeals Court Holds that Neither Widow Nor Workers’ Compensation Insurer is Entitled to Summary Judgment in Death Benefits Case Arising From Accident in Truck Supplied by Employer
13 November 2019 - Trial Court Was Wrong to Deny Directed Verdict to Plaintiff in Texas Car Accident Case
16 October 2019 - Texas Appeals Court Holds that Statute of Limitations Was Tolled During Car Accident Defendant’s Out-of-State Vacation
16 September 2019 - Texas Appeals Court Affirms $650,000 Verdict in Car Accident Case, Despite Mention of Liability Insurance in Closing Argument
16 August 2019 - Texas Court of Appeals Says That Student’s Injury from Uncovered Fan Under School Bus Seat Resulted from “Use” of Bus, Triggering Jurisdiction in Trial Court
16 July 2019 - Texas Car Crash Victims’ Suit Against Negligent Driver Dismissed Due to Failure to Exercise Due Diligence in Service of Process
14 June 2019
